John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media

• COM Express hot among military electronics users while CompactPCI levels off

  

  PICMG standards such as CompactPCI have been leveraged for years in aerospace and defense applications such as communications, avionics, and satellites. Today, the fastest growing standard from the PICMG experts is COM Express, thanks to its flexibility and reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) characteristics.

  John McHale, Editorial Director

• PICMG standards adoption growing in Asia, Europe with COM Express leading the way

  

  Leaders of PICMG say that their standards continue to grow in adoption across the globe, with COM Express making huge inroads in Asia and Internet of Things (IoT) markets while CompactPCI Serial grows in acceptance in Europe.

  John McHale, Editorial Director

• Unmanned aircraft leverage COM Express and other small form factors

  

  Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like COM Express, PC/104, and others.

  John McHale, Editorial Director

• Unmanned aircraft leverage PC/104, COM Express, and other small form factors

  John McHale, Editorial Director

  Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like PC/104, COM Express, and others.